Woman&#39;s vest



Dec. 20, 1932 M. D. NEILSON 1,891,775

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Patented Dec. 20, 1932 y UNITED STATES MARY J). NEILSON, or mmmom, MINNESOTA" WOMANSV vEsr I Application filed July 14',

7 My invention relates to womens vests and has for its object to produce a simple and inexpensive vest which will fit itself readily and effectively to the form of the wearer and wherein the fullness needed to accommodate the garment over the busts and over the hips is provided by a simple and efiective means of cutting a closed elastic tube of woven or knitted fabric so that said tube will produce the vest, forming at the same time a brassiere and a slip.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof, and its novel features are particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, illustrating the application of my invention in one form,

Fig. 1 is a side view of a figure or manikin showing the vest in position thereon. Fig. 2 shows the form of the vest when fabricated solely out of a tube. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of said tube which will preferably be of knit- I ted or elastic material. Fig. 4 is a view of said tube showing the manner in which the vest portions are cut therefrom. Fig. 5 illustrates a different form of cutting the tube to provide a garment having fullness over the hips. Fig. 6 shows the form of a filler strip used in completing the garment of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 illustrates a tube blank showing the manner of cutting the tube to produce the blank pieces of Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 8 is a manikin figure showing the completed gar-- ment of Figs. 5 and 6 in position on the form of the wearer. Fig. 9 is a manikin figure showing the completed garment in position on the form of the wearer as worn under bloomers.

Knitted and elastic fabric is obtainable in quantity in the form of tubes such as shown at 10 in Figs. 3 and 4. It has been proposed to use such tubes for undergarments by cutting a right line across the same as shown at 11 in Fig. 3. Garments so constructed as worn will not hang properly, bunching under the arms and inadequately covering the busts, and, if large enough to be worn comfortably over the hips, will be too large and loose about the busts. I have discovered that 930. 7 Serial No. 467,817.

if the tube lOis cut across in a broad reverse curve at top and bottom, as indicated at 12 in Fig. 1, then a simple'tubular gar"- ment as indicated by the numeral 13," of Figs. 1 and '2 will .beproduced. By attachin-g shoulder straps at the sides of the upper edges let of the cuts 12, as indicated in Fig. 1, the tubular garmentw-ill be suspended from the shoulders so that the back portion will be lower and the front portion liftedto cover the busts, and the garment will be compact, inexpensive and satisfactory in use.

A better fitted garment which'a-t the same time-has the'effect of being both slip and brassiere is shown in Figs. 8 and 9. Blanks are cut for this garment as illustrated at 16 in Fig. 5. In this form the blanks are cut in pairs from the tubes 10, the outer cuts 17 of each'pair being similartothe' cuts 12. At the middle of the tube the pairs are divided as shown in Fig. 7 by means of a convex cut 18 running to the center of the tube 10 ascompared with a concave cut 19 running from the other edge tothe center of the-tube 10, and said tube is cleft at its center as indicated at 20 a suitable distance. 18 and 19 are offset as indicated at 21, and since the cleft 20 is along the longitudinal center of the tube, this ofli'setting will be symmetrical as to each piece of the pair. Triangular pieces 22, shown in Figs. 6 and 7,'

are cut out of a portion of the tube, a dozen such triangular pieces being cut with little waste from a short section, as shown 1n Flg. 7.

These triangular pieces 22 have a short side 23 and a long side 24, the short side being sewed to the shorter portion of the longitudinal cleft 20, as indicated at 25 of Fig. 8; and the long side being sewed to the longer portion of said cleft at 26. The end of the triangular piece 27 is trimmed to match the curves 18 and 19 so that the finished garment will have a bottom curve similar to the curve 12 of the simple tubular garment. There will, of course, be a cleft 20 on each side of the garment indicated at 28 and piece 22 sewed into each side of the garment, and when this construction is employed a tube may be used small enough to act in its upper portion as a brassiere while its lower portion The cuts 7 will be sufiiciently enlarged to fit comfortably over the hips of the wearer. If desired the front of the garment between the busts may be gathered to effect better fit, as indicated at 29 in Fig. 9.

The advantages of this construction will be very apparent. There is no waste at all where the simple tube garment 13 is constructed, and substantially no waste where the brassire fullecl garment 28 is constructed.

' The garment willbe strictly form-fitting in the latter case and form-fitting to a degree in the former case. Owing to the manner in which the tube is cut across, thegarment will hang from shoulder straps 'very satisfactorily, and it is in every way economical to manufacture, and, hence, can be sold at a reasonable price.

I claim:

A fitted vest comprising a section of a tube of knitted or elastic material of uniform cross-sectional diameter thruout its length cut across at top and bottom with parallel reverse curves such that the front of the resulting garment will extend up higher on the body of the wearer than the back and the garment will fit the wearer without pulling or bunching, said cuts at the bottom of said tube being offset along the longitudinal centers of the sides and the tube being cut in an extension of said offset lines, and a triangular piece being sewed into said side cuts to form a continuation of the bottom edge of the garment and increase its diameter about the hips of the wearer so that the upper portions of the garment may be small enough to act as a brassiere.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my 7 signature.

MARY D. NEILSON. 

